Cracked-boll-cotton cleaner.



w. H. HOLTBY. GRAGKED BOLL COTTON GLEANEE.

APPLIOATION ILED I'EB. 19, 1907.

Patented Dec. 29

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W. Hl` HOLTBY. GRAUKED BoLL ooTToN GLEANBR.

APPLICATION I'ILED I'EB. 19, 1907.

Patented Dee. 29, 1908.

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WILKIE H. HOLTBY, OF MARTHA, OKLAHOMA.

CRACKED-BOLL-COTTON CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Ptenta Dec. 29, 1908.

Application filed. February 19, 1907. Serial o. 358,240.

To all 'whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, WILKIE H. HOLTBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Martha, in the county of Jackson and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cracked-Boll-Cotton Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for cracking and cleaning cotton bolls, the obj ect being to rovide a machine in which the bolls can be p aoed and the cotton separated from them, thereby saving a great amount of cotton that hangs to the bolls and is ordinarily wasted.

Another object of my invention is to provide the machine with cracking rollers so that the bolls will be cracked into small pieces before they reach the saws. i

Another object of my invention is to provide means for throwing the cracked bolls against the saw so that the seed cotton will be removed from the bolls before they pass vout of the machine.

With these objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a specificationz-Figure v1 is a longltudinal sectional view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the adjustable bearing for the saw. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the adjustable bearing for the beater. Fig. 4 is a detail enlarged vertical sectional viewv of the upper end of the casing carrying the saw. Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on lines 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of one -of the links of the saw. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one of the brushes. Fig. 8 is a detail enlarged sectional view of the crackin` roller. Fig. 9 is an enlarved, detail sectional view 'of a saw Cleaning rdller.

Referring to the drawing A indicates a casing provided with a hopper B adapted to receive the bolls in which are mounted rollers B', B2, oarrying an endless conveyer C, which is adapted to convey the bolls into the casing A. A beater D is mounted over the upper end of theconveyer O in adjustable bearings E, so that it can be adjusted to or away from the conveyer as desired.

Mounted in the casing A, are crushing rollers F, G, and H adapted to rotate at different rates of speed, provided with sheet metal coverings F', G', H', having half-round ribs F2, Gr2 and H2 secured therein so that the 'pass between the same.

part of thisV bolls `will be broken into small pieces as they A casing I is arranged to'one side of the casing A connected theretoby a spout I', in which an endless conveyer J is arranged, passing over a roller J in the casing A, under the crushing rollers, and a roller J 2 in the casing I, and adapted to convey the broken bolls into the casing I from the crushing rollers.

Mounted in the upper end of the casing I is a sprocket wheel K and in the lower end is an adj ustable bearingMin which are mounted sprocket wheels N, on which the gin saw O is mounted, which is formed of blocks O' provided with teeth O2 on their outer edges, and links O3 secured on their inner edges by bolts, which are provided with a hook at one end and an eye at the other end adapted to be connected together, to form an endless saw. A series of inclined plates P are secured to the side of the casing I under the spout J, adapted to direct the broken bolls against the saw, the seed cotton being forced into the teeth of the saw by a series of brushes Q arranged in the casing over the plates. The pieces of bolls and trash dro down into a conveyer R, and are carrie away. A roller S is mounted in the upper end of the casing havinga Sheet metal covering S' provided with outwardly projecting pins S2, adapted to remove any of the pieces of the bolls from the saw that may lodge in the seed cotton.

An ordinary cotton brush T is arranged on one side above the top of the saw adapted to remove the cotton from the saw and discharge the same through the chute.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have provided a machine so constructed that the boll can be placed therein whole and every particle of cotton removed from the same With the seed.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire'to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a cracked boll cotton cleaner, the combination with a casing oarrying an endless saw, of inclined plates secured to one side of said casing, brushes arranged over said plates, Vand means for crushing cotton bolls and conveying them into said casing, for the purpose described.

2. In a cracked boll cotton cleaner, the combination with a casing carrying an endless saw, of inclined plates secured to one side of said casing, brushes arranged over said plates, means for adjusting said saw away l oured to one side of the oasing, brushes erfrom or toward the piates, and means for ranged over said plates, a second oasing, a

crushing eotton bolls and oonveyng the conveyer between the easings, and orushing same into the oasing for the purpose derollers in the last mentioned easing, for the 5 seribeld. 1 d b n 1 1 I purpose desoribed.

3. n a crae (e o cotton o eaner, tle 7 v i 'f combination With a easing, provided With a ILIXIE H' HOL lB' oonveyer at its lower end, and a diseharge Witnesses: opening at the upper end, of an endless saw HoRAoE C. DOUGHTY,

10 mounted in said casing, inolined plates se- GEO. W. LEWIS. 

